Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 9
"An oversight" means a mistake caused by carelessness, something someone forgot or missed.
Who acts: oversight, someone · What happens: mean, cause, forget, miss · To what, where: mistake, something
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oversight, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 oversight | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 oversight | det |
| 3 | oversight | oversight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 oversight | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mistake | det |
| 7 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mistake | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 carelessness | case |
| 10 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caused | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carelessness | punct |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 forgot | obj |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 forgot | nsubj |
| 14 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mistake | acl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 missed | cc |
| 16 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgot | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a oversight | a mistake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cause | participle | a mistake not said here | by carelessness | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | someone | something | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | miss | past | someone not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:033-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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